Send Off
 

First of all, Kelly...giving out your name and school on the internet is probably NOT a good idea. It's a small world.

Second of all...do your own damn homework.

Dang, I hope the folks at Mercks or Pfizer or AstraZeneca never resort to your type of "Research".


Ok...for our sendoffs we smeared our senoirs in honey and left them in the woods for the bears, and then we went off cow-tipping.

Now that's a 100% reliable research answer, I promise.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

FIND THE LIBRARY.

If one of my students put www.greekchat.com down as a reference, I would fail him/her on the spot.

That only flies if you are publishing a book exposing the dark side of sorority life.

I've used forums as resources in presentations, but really only as a general "they have good advice for people with ADD here" sort of thing. Or, I got this anecdote/quote from User2315smith or something.

It's not cool to try and use it as your research paper resource.

What's a sendoff?

Our sendoff was called Senior Farewell. :confused:

Ours was called Senior Sendoff. I have no idea why a high schooler would be interested in it. Of all aspects of greek life, there are a lot that are more interesting and important. I couldn't write six pages on Senior sendoff if you paid me too. Not to mention that it totally varies from chapter to chapter and isn't official in any way. Weird.

Anyway, hopefully she's just kinda young. Alphafrog, she hasn't been crazy or rude yet or tried to stir up anything, let's at least try to play somewhat nicely.

We put ours in a viking boat, lit it on fire and floated it off into the ocean...oh wait...

On the serious side, we did a senior night where everyone was voted Most Likely to ______ or Best ____ something funny/fitting for each senior. Sometimes littles would give speeches but my year we had a much-missed pledge class member who had to leave school (went alumna) during our sophomore year come back and roast us. WE loved it, I bet the freshmen had NO clue what was going on.

Some wonder why Greeks have an image problem...

I went to one last spring. Our alumnae group attends so that we can show the graduating collegiates how they can continue to participate in Greek life after they leave college.

As someone else said, each of these send offs vary from chapter to chapter. The one I went to was called a "Strawberry Social." The alumnae bring chocolate covered strawberries (strawberries are one of our symbols) and other desserts. We explain to the seniors what opportunities are available in the alumnae chapter and invite them to affiliate with us.

Then, each graduating senior has an opportunity to tell the group what was most special to her about the fraternity. There are lots of laughs and tears during this time. The girls are given presents from both the collegiates and the alumnae.

This is an open event-- relatives who are not Zetas sometimes attend.

MGW, art thou discussing TEH cult business on the public boards?! :cool:

ROTFL!

We had Senior Wills, which was a dinner followed by the Seniors "leaving" bequests to various sisters. Some of it was nice and some of it was nasty. I left something semi-nasty to someone that was more memorable by my saying it than by what it was.

Afterwards, the latest Alpha class would host a dessert to leave it on a "sweet note".

Why the hell would there be anything about senior sendoffs at the library??? She wanted to know about Greek traditions, so she came here and asked. She CLEARLY stated she looked already and didn't find anything. There are very few books about Panhellenic sororities...I should know, I've looked myself, and what she's looking for isn't really something people would write about in a book anyway cause it's not a big deal for most chapters. It was very logical of her to ask this here and she was nice about it, too. God, you're a bitch. Seriously...get a life.

Kellybear, honey, I'm sorry that certain people get their excitement in life from being rude to strangers over the internet. Luckily, most people are reasonable. Are you sure that "senior sendoffs" is really what you're looking for? You probably couldn't write a whole paper on that. Usually for chapters it's just a fun thing they do near to graduation at the end of every semester where the seniors write a will or they have a dinner or something similar. Others have given good examples. You could probably write a good paper on Greek recruitment! There's plenty of information there. For a basic rundown of how it works, you can go into the Recruitment forum here and poke around a bit, that's probably some of the best information you're going to easily find about it. Also I have sent you a PM, check your box.

If it's not something you can find in a library (or other hardcopy media), and must resort to an internet messageboard to find information on, you probably should not be using it for a term paper topic. Reliable Internet sources, newspapers, magazines, etc are all fine to use on an academic paper...messageboards are not. I think I learned that about 5th grade.
And between the hours of 7-4 EST, I have no life - I'm at work.

IF she was going to write about recruitment she could find THAT information in other sources, sendoffs not so much.

You have so very much missed the point.

It went that way ->
Hurry up, you might still catch it.

If you want people to be nice, then please refrain from saying "God, you're a bitch", etc. I've left it up because i'm betting Alphafrog probably thinks it's funny (Alphafrog, if you'd like it removed, just PM or hit the report button and i'll take care of it), but it sure ruins your argument.

You're right. It's pretty damn entertaining. And I have no need of the report button.

Pot, meet kettle.